Laylia
Yang
PharmD Student
University of Minnesota
Laylia Yang is a pharmacy student in the class of 2025 at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. She is currently a pharmacy intern at the University of Minnesota Medical Center - West Bank and holds several leadership positions in the College of Pharmacy including Class of 2025 Twin Cities Representative, Phillips Neighborhood Clinic Community Relations Education Associate, Mental Health First Aid Coordinator, Psychiatric and Neurologic Collaborative Coordinator, among others. After pharmacy school, she hopes to pursue a pharmacy residency and specialize in pharmacogenomics or mental health.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in the Phillips Neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Starting in 2022, all of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers are required to complete a three-session community engagement training program, developed and facilitated by PNC’s Community Relations team, one session focused on each of the following topics: (1) interprofessional workplace cultural humility, (2) structural competency, and (3) structural humility. The first of these three sessions encourages participants to notice connections between cultural humility…
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in south Minneapolis, led by University of Minnesota health professional graduate students from 14 different health science disciplines. Beginning in the fall of 2022, PNC’s Community Relations team developed and implemented a three-part interprofessional training series required of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers. With interprofessionalism as the throughline, the training modules equipped incoming volunteers with a shared conceptual framework for ethical community engagement and clinical practices that…